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Dom Mariani (born 1958) is an Australian guitarist, vocalist, producer, and songwriter. Mariani has been a member of several bands since the early 1980s, including The Stems, The Someloves, DM3, Datura, The Majestic Kelp and the Domnicks. The Stems is the best-known and most successful of Mariani's projects. Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane described the power pop group as "one of the best live bands on the Australian scene". In 2005 Mariani was inducted into the West Australian Music Industry Awards Hall of Fame. In August of that year he curated a double-CD compilation album, ''Popsided Guitar: Anthology 1984–2004'', which included material from several of his bands. In 2007 United States writer John M. Borack rated Mariani as "one of the top five pop titans of the past couple of decades". Outside his music career, Mariani's main occupation is as an architectural designer. His son John Mariani and nephew Dion Mariani were mainstays of a pre-teenagegarage rock band called The Flairz from 2003 to 2009. ==Biography== Domenic Desio "Dom" Mariani was born in 1958 and grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) "> 'Guitar Radiation' at APRA search engine ) Note: User may have to click on 'Search again' and at 'Performer:' add Dom Mariani, Stems, or Strangeloves to search for other titles.〕〔McFarlane, . Archived from (the original ) on 30 September 2004. Retrieved 17 July 2013.〕 Mariani is the son of Italian migrants from Abruzzo,〔 his father, Giovanni Mariani (born 29 March 1927 in Fresagrandinaria) was a farm and factory hand who arrived in Fremantle in September 1951; his grandfather Domenico Mariani (24 August 1901 – 9 March 1971) arrived in 1955. His mother, Giovanna Mariani (born 1 June 1937 in Scerni), arrived in May 1957. Mariani has a brother Lorenzo (known as Laurie) and a sister Maria.() He received his first guitar at age nine.〔 He took lessons with Wally Harland at the Fremantle Guitar Studio in his early teens.〔 Mariani's earliest bands during his high school years were The Nit Wits and Impact. .〔〔Holmgren, ('The Stems' ) entry. Retrieved 17 July 2013.〕 Harland also ran a cabaret, where Mariani performed with "a couple of the other guys ... We linked up with Robbie Scorer and we were playing everything from 'Pride Of Erran' to 'Good Golly Miss Molly'". Impact performed instrumental cover versions of Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Beatles and Bee Gees material.〔〔 In November 2003 Mariani remembered "CCR's 'Down on the Corner' at my very first gig. I knew it note for note but then when I went to play it, nerves kicked in... And I didn't play 'Down on the Corner' that's for sure!!"〔 His other early influences were The Raspberries, Badfinger and Big Star.〔 After high school, Mariani attended college.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dom Mariani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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